‘Aging society’ gets older
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THERE were 222 million people aged 60 or over in China at the end of 2015, 16.1 percent of the total population, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
That marked an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared with the previous year, when the figure was 212.4 million.
Of the 222 million, 143.86 million were 65 or over, or 10.5 percent of the population, also up from the 10.1 percent in 2014, according to the ministry.
A country is considered to be an “aging society” when the number of people aged 60 or above reaches 10 percent or more.
China has been an aging society since 1999.
The country has some 116,000 nursing homes with about 6.727 million beds, with a year-on-year increase of 23.4 percent and 16.4 percent respectively.
However, there are still only 30.3 beds for every 1,000 senior citizens.
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